My mother-in-law “Lorna” has always been rather overbearing, but this Christmas, she went beyond. Lorna has two children: my ...

Teachers at Flushing High School claim the school’s grading system is forcing them to pass students who are actually failing ...

In a candid reflection on the changing nature of work, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told CNN that hard work alone no longer guarantees success. As automation and AI redefine the economy, Dimon urged ...

I hear those three words all the time at the elementary school where I teach. So many students say they hate it that I started asking why. Their answers are almost always the same: Math is hard. Math ...

Taxes are hard. Math is harder. But the way U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., see it, it shouldn’t have to be that way. A bipartisan measure that would make it easier for ...

Apps like Photomath, which make studying easier, include Socratic, Microsoft Math Solver, Mathway, Symbolab, Desmos, Khan Academy, Brilliant, Quizlet, AnkiDroid, and Brainly. These apps offer features ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Imagine you’re a character in a math problem. You have three platters, but two cakes. All three platters need to have the same amount of cake. How would you split it? Without even saying the word ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO ...